choonway

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by choonway 4y ago
Whether you print a benchy using a tabletop 3d printer using PLA, or a using a gigantic gantry crane pouring cement, the compute power required is the same. 3D printing firmware and all of it's associated design software (CAD/CAM)
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by choonway 4y ago
It's not about the continuous construction. It's about the speed. Construction is way too slow but the world is spending more money on faster compute instead.
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by choonway 4y ago
People like to write about utopia but don't really spend time on the core technology that enables it. Self-replicating machines etc.
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by choonway 4y ago
i wonder how the original text would have fared if it went through the grammarly filter instead.
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by choonway 5y ago
parametric modelling is good for minor changes that don't change the general topology of the part. Otherwise you'll run into topology naming issues that you have to fix by hand (at best) or a complete redesign of the part. (at wor
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by choonway 5y ago
this brings a new meaning to 'rock soups'. apparently they are edible and taste like capsicum.
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by choonway 5y ago
the only true binary sensor i can think of are good old fashioned mechanical switches.
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by choonway 5y ago
how about the color of negative temperatures?
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by choonway 5y ago
or you could use a drone with a sufficiently zoomed in and stabilized camera.
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by choonway 5y ago
oh i've done this before. the trick is to make changes in your app to suit theirs, not the other way around. it's not impossible, just hard in the meantime get acquainted with their politics
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by choonway 5y ago
not exactly, i have been printing FFF parts with a tolerance of 50 microns with a .25mm nozzle. it all has to do with part design and quality filament.
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by choonway 5y ago
In china, they could probably could lower it down to free. you give up your location privacy and get blasted with ads.
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by choonway 5y ago
[2]Oh but it already has happening in Singapore. IF the kid can't make it through the conventional academic path, and has to rely on the discretionary route, there are plenty of coaches who will 'teach' your kid how to interv
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by choonway 5y ago
AlphaGo changed Chinese Philosophy way more than most westerners realize.
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by choonway 5y ago
why not combine the both and adopt the metric inch?
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by choonway 6y ago
existing treaties with china, us, plus nuclear arsenal etc.
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by choonway 6y ago
PRC, ROC and Tibet can claim all the rights it wants, but buddy, you have to back it up militarily and politically.
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by choonway 6y ago
ROC took over the assets and liabilities of the qing, just like russia did with the soviet union
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by choonway 6y ago
how about texas and mexico?
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by choonway 6y ago
the quick and dirty solution would be for any male VC to partner up with a female VC to deal with such situations.
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by choonway 6y ago
trading is gambling. the only difference is the risk and insider info.
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by choonway 6y ago
not sancho panda at it again?
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by choonway 6y ago
the world needs useful idiots.
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by choonway 6y ago
have you considered the scenario that taiwan would peacefully reunite with prc? what would the us do? fight?
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by choonway 6y ago
Well, the patent also mentions that it can spot Han people. Apparently it cannot discriminate between Caucasians / Indians and Africans. There needs to be work done there. :P
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by choonway 6y ago
You know, he does have a more than a passing resemblance to Jim Raynor, of Starcraft...
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by choonway 6y ago
I also worked at an institute which badgered us to go after 'low hanging fruits' and build a whole bunch of pedestals and ended up with a tv screen and a CGI monkey reciting Shakespeare on a shoestring budget. I'd would have
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by choonway 6y ago
you don't need to build solar cells - a reflector will do. and you don't need to launch these reflectors from the earth - launching them from the moon or mercury is much less demanding. you just need to build factories in space.
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by choonway 6y ago
It only goes to show that there can be only one winner in space, not that solar concentrators can't be built.
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by choonway 6y ago
If you want baby steps - we can start building an autonomous factory on the moon to build more solar cells. No need for nuclear fusion.

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